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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: aside and was standing looking out at us. The tableau of give and
take was unmistakable; the gold purse, her outstretched hand, my own
attitude. It was over in a second; then he came out and lounged on
the balcony railing.
"They're mad at me in there," he said airily, "so I came out. I
suppose the reason they call it bridge is because so many people
get cross over it."
The heat broke up the card group soon after, and they all came out
for the night breeze. I had no more words alone with Alison.
I went back to the Incubator for the night. We said almost nothing
on the way home; there was a constraint between us for the first
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